FILM

TIME'S WAKE (Once Removed)

16mm, 1987, 14 minutes, color & b&w.

A collection of 'windows' on a personal past, TIME'S WAKE (once removed) is made from home movie and other types of footage I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at l'Ile d'Orléans, Québec. The film expands the theme of the double image, by linking fragmentation, motion and stillness with memory. -VG.

“A beautiful film that frames the landscape with multiple devices (camera, window, trees) but is free of the traditional Canadian fear of the land and the obsessive need to enclose it.” - Cathy Jonasson, New Experiments, Canada House, London

Distributed by CFMDC, FMC & LC
Available in 16mm, QTHD, DCP

“Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" “Time's Wake (Once Removed)” incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier version: made from material I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at L'Ile d'Orleans, Quebec. It includes both home movie and other types of footage. In this film, the camera “I,” in extension with home movie reality, is a living participating entity. The film represents an endearing but removed artifact, a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness. (VG) CFMDC